Q: What do the following sentences have in common?

• Dinner is ready.
• This cloth will make me a coat.
• A pool forms.
• A son was born to them.
• Mushrooms grow well in damp places.
• Watermelons are produced here.
• Some business turned up and prevented me from going there.
• His income enables him to live a decent life.
• He is good for nothing.
• A tender understanding seems to have been formed between the two.

A: They're all examples in the dictionary entry for the verb dekiru.

The 4th Edition Green Goddess lists the following meanings for it:

1. to be done; to be completed; to be finished; to be ready.
2. to be made; to be manufactured; to be built; to be constructed (of something).
3. to be formed; to be organized; to be established; to be set up.
4. to form; to make; to take shape.
5. to come into being (existence).
6. to grow.
7. to be produced.
8. to break out.
9. can (do, write, etc); to be able (in a position) to do; to be capable; to be possible; to be permitted to do.
10. to be good at; to be skillful in.
11. to become intimate.
12. to be quoted; to be traded.

With all of the usage examples, it runs to about 2/3 of a page.